Week 3 - Harris & Hofer Activity Types

Instructional Planning Activity Types Chart

Make sure you have read the article for this week by Harris and Hofer! For this assignment you will think about an activity that you do in your class and consider some technologies that may support that activity in a different way based on your TPACK understanding. Some examples are provided below in different styles, you can decide how you will enter your contribution to the knowledge being constructed in the chart!

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Participant Name	Activity Type	Brief Description	Possible Technologies
Cheryl Ward	Listen to Audio	Students listen to recordings of speeches, music, radio broadcasts, oral histories, and lectures; digital or non-digital	Podcasts (“Great Speeches in History,” etc.), Audacity, Garageband, Odeo, Evoca, Podcast People
Teacher	Peer Feedback	In my class students give each other peer feedback on a writing project, but it would be great to do this electronically.	I may consider a wiki where they would post their writing and then others could comment sort of non private? Could use Google Docs and peers could comment using the comment option and it would be more private.
Kevin Holcomb, Highland Middle School	Data-Based Inquiry	Using print-based and digital data available online students pursue original lines of inquiry: Students work with the results from a real-world, published, on-line survey, in order to develop measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode). Students will then display their results. Discussions will focus on affected criteria, such as range, quartiles, and outliers.	MS Excel. This application can be easily used for data entry and can quickly and accurately calculate results necessary for determining measures of central tendency. Additionally, inherent to the program, MS Excel can further graphically display the results in the form of tables and/or charts.
Brian Filiatreau Highland Middle School	Listen to Audio	I have had some students use the books on cds with their personal Ipods to read in schools. I have also had them record their radio comercials as an advertisment for their book. I think next year I will definently use the Voicethread site as an activity to listen to audio, video and peer feedback.	Podcasts (“Great Speeches in History,” etc.), Audacity, Garageband, Odeo,Evoca, Podcast People Audacity, VoiceThread, itunes
Brian Nehlsen-Highland Middle School-Barberton City Schools	Engage in Historical Role Play	Students will be able to pretend they are a historical person and make decisions and actions based on true historical context.	Besides Moviemaker, iMovie, Audacity, or a digital camera students could also create a second life character for their historical person and have their character simulate real actions or how that figure would react to present day situations. This would help students really gain an understanding of their particular historical person.
Martin Danial - Maple Heights High School	Listen to Audio/Engage in Historical Role Play	Students listen to audio/watch video of older generations of scientific inquiry based on a subject in science. After watching/listening, students are asked to create podcasts or videos how many scientists would record their notes back before this technology to see how this would further help their record keeping and also apply the use of technology in making stronger research and how it may help. This allows for students to realize the ability of technology to advance the field, advance thinking, and how it can be applied today.	MovieMaker, podcasts, video, voicethread, videoconferencing, PowerPoint, iMovie, Google Docs, the list goes on...
Brittany Beutel - Maple Heights High School	Data Based Inquiry	Students will be asked to find and comprehend data on former geographical and spatial phenomena in order to determine possibilities of recurrence, predict future patterns, create data tables, graphs, and charts to help explain the information as well as present this information to a proper audience.	Excel, PowerPoint, SPSS, Videoconferencing....
Bev Hastings Garfield Heights Middle School	Build a Model	Students are instructed to "build a cell." After information is covered during several lessons each child is asked to construct a working plant or animal cell. Each child will build a Play Dough cell. They must make a blue print and present the model to the teacher. One such choice could be a car. The person driving the car is the nucleus because the person controls all of the activites of the cell or car. The cell wall is the outer metal of the car because it protects the inside of the car. The doors and windows are the cell membrane because it allows things to pass in and out of the cell.	Power point presentations. Digital cameras to take pictures of their creations to dowload to a moodle lesson I will create.
Amanda Recker Garfield Heights Middle School	Build a Model	Students are to construct a bottle rocket as a culminating activity to the unit that discusses Newton's three laws of Motion. Each student will be required to create a bottle rocket that will be judged on the distance that it travels. Students will be working in pairs and they will have to create at least one different variable in regards to making two rockets that are different. Students will then be asked to communicate to other groups as to what they are constructing using wikis or blogs. Students finally will then be asked to create a wordle using the words they thought were important in knowing for them to create an effective rocket. We will then as a class compile all of the distances that the rockets went and create an Excel spreadsheet of the final distances.	Wordle, Excel, Wikis, Voice Thread
Jim Hull Maple Heights High School	Collaborative Writing Project	Upper level high school students could use a Wiki/Voice Thread to collaborate on the writing of a children's story (grades 1-3). Upon completion of the finished product, video conferencing technology could be used to share the story with elementary students in our District.	Audio/Video conferencing Wikis/Voice Thread
Rachel Neugebauer Highland Middle School	Complete Charts/Tables	Students can fill in charts or create them based on content they have learned. Students create a representation of the Water Cycle using digital tools. They are able to represent the cycle by using images or words to describe each step in process. This can also be used for the students to fill in parts of charts that the teacher has left blank intentionally.	Inspiration, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word
Jim Jakubowski; WHHS Science	Go on a virtual field trip	It would be useful to create a series of virtual field trips for kids to visit exotic locales, such as a trip to a rainforest to see what that biome is like or "swim" to experience a coral reef.	Audio and Video. Virtual Reality. MS Word (to take notes). iMovie. The options are only limited by the imagination.
Phil Hodanbosi U. L. Light Middle School	Build a virtual model	Our school system is opening a new middle school next fall and our students could decide the type and arrangement of seating in the school cafeteria. They could be given a fixed budget and have to research the furniture that would be appropriate to hold the desired number of students while allowing for access to food lines, entrances/exits and any fire code restrictions.	Excel, Powerpoint, Microsoft Draw / Smartdraw
Bill Wagner Lakewood High School	Build a model	I used to have students build physical models of various molecules in chemistry. I can see how doing this same exercise both physically and virtually could help students better grasp the three-dimensional structure of molecules.	Inspiration, photoshop, CAD software
Doug Sudomir U.L. Light	Complete charts/tables	When teaching students about volcanoes and their locations around the world I have them plot locations on a world map. I think that this could be done faster and be more meaningful by using digital tools.	excel, google maps
Shelly Habegger, HMS Coach	discussion boards	As an instructional coach, I work strictly with teachers. In the past year, Phil and I have engaged the teachers in a discussion board as a means of communicating best practices to one another. All core teachers have participated within hte builidng and between budilgins, both middle schools in the district were invovled in this activity. The prompts occured once a month and discussed specific paractices the teachers were conducting in their classroom.	Discussion boards
Amy Miller, Tech Coach, Lakewood City Schools	Book discussions	I also just work with teachers and as part of a book study, we used a blog to discuss the chapters of the book as well as looking at websites. We linked videos and podcasts to support additional materials and ideas.	Blog, wiki, videos, websites,podcasts, Skype
Matt Mihalyov, Garfield Heights Middle School	Present findings from scientific experimentation	Students will present (individually or as a group) their findings from scientific investigations. In this way students will concentrate on the importance of clearly presenting their claim and presenting their evidence in a way that justifies their claim to the audience.	PowerPoint, Document camera, MovieMaker or another digital presentation software program, voicethread...
Vicki Tomasheski GHMS	Data collection and graphing data	After completing virtual activity students will collect data and graph the data once completed.	EdHeads.org-virtual activity/Cell Phones, Excel voice thread, Wordle
JON MOCKBEE GHMS	DATA COLLECTION AND EVALUATION OF INFORMATION	Students will present to their peers information they have collected about bridges and the choices made to decide on what type of model bridge to build	Voice thread, Power point ,wiki
Melissa Jacot Maple Heights High School	story telling/research	Previously my students have had to bring in pictures of themselves from birth to now and research what child development stage they are at, what theorists and the theory that would go with that picture and present it. It would be done on poster board or a book. They learned a lot because it was relevant to their lives and authentic. Now the use of story boards, voice threads, etc. can be used instead to integrate technology.	Movie maker, iMovie, VoiceThread, Scanner, Digital Cameras
Ann Pesta Harding Middle School - Lakewood	Lab Reports	The traditional science lab report has sections for the problem, hypothesis, variables, plan, data, results, and conclusion along with some research at the beginning of the project. 7th graders work on one section at a time at first and then by the end of the year they are writing complete lab reports. 8th graders begin with a group lab project and then write the rest of the reports on their own. I would like to make the reports completely electronic and vary the style each grading period. We could start with the traditional report but type it and use Excel for data and results. Then we could try other ways to report out to the class.	Word processing, Spreadsheets, Voice Thread, Blog, Movie maker or IMovie, Digital cameras, Photoshop, Internet research, Skype (team up with the teachers at the other middle school in town and have "poster sessions" over the Internet).
Mary Pumper Warrensville High School Mathematics	Draw and Find Geometric Figures in the Real World	This is a project done typically with a list of geometric figures (ie perpendicular lines or segments, concave hexagon, congruent triangles) which the student has to define, draw with proper equipment and notations, and then find a real-world example of, either cut from a printed source, or from a photograph taken by the student. In the past, this was done as a written paper project. More recently, students have been creating PowerPoint presentations instead of paper.	VoiceThread, presentation software, Maple software (this is great engineering and math software - anyone use this before? I would like to find out more) , Photoshop, digital cameras
LIsa Hoy Harding Middle School - Science	Explore a Sunken Ship	This is a lesson at the end of the year that requires the students to "excavate" a sunken ship from the days of explorers. There twelve artifacts that they recover and study. From the study of these artifacts, the students infer what the explorers were like, believed in, what their motivations were and where they had traveled.	Students could become the expert on one item and the class could create a wiki on the 12 items in detail.
Adriana Greenlief UL Light Middle School	Create a map, generate questions, create a review activity	Student create a map of a city, mall, amusement park, etc. Once the map is complete, students create and answer questions about the distance between two places and where the midpoint of two places is. Students share project with classmates as a review activity	Google maps, Inspiration, Word, Power Point
Britni Theofilos Maple Heights High School -Science	Develop a Knowledge Web	Students create a knowledge web on a specific biome in the form of a wiki and encourage others from other schools and other countries to post. They must link to other types of technology and get information from other students or adults who live in that biome.	wiki, webcam, wordle, voicethread, podcasts, google earth, facebook, myspace, twitter, blogs, powerpoint, word, digial camera, flipcam,
Deanne Miklovic Maple Heights High School - Community Principal	Create a Voice Thread for my small learning community	I would like to create a voice thread for my small learning community and use it as a communication forum for staff (possible add parents and students as I become more comfortable with the technology). My goal is to get to the point where the technology will be used in place of our bi-monthly community meetings. Many of our staff members are involved in after school extra-curricular activities and are not provided a forum for their input.	voicethread, webcam, flip or digital cameral
Lisa M . Wiegand/Lakewood High school:intervention specialist/student support	create history	I started in the education world as a social studies teacher and i always said i would love to teach history in the holideck on Star Trek next generation...where fantasy comes to life....since we don't yet have that technology i think it would be awesome to teach students by having them make a movie of some historical event where they are the stars...but the synthesis of the project would be in the reflections of who they were and what part they played in the historical event..after watching movies on youtube, this could be an interesting way to "live" history	camera, movie making software, historical reseach on the web; virtual field trips to places of history and historical records;
Katie Gerard/Science Soc. Studies Harding Middle School	Re-create history by re-enacting an event	This year my students preformed puppet shows on a specific battle of the revolutionary war. They had to research the battle on line. They also had to have at least three background scenes using the promethean board. Most choose to do a powerpoint with sound incorporated. Some of the students were really creative with their backgrounds and music or battle sounds that they incorporated in their powerpoint presentation.	Promethean board, researching on the web, incorporating different music and sounds to their powerpoint to make it authentic. Next year I want them to explore the idea of a movie, voicethreads, and photoshop.
Reza Mohasses- Science Teacher Warrensville Heights High School	Answer questions for reviewing a unit	I review the concepts and vocabulary with my Biology students using Jeopardy powerpoints I find online which I edit to their needs and class topic coverage for a given lesson unit. I divide the class into two teams headed by a captain each. Then, we flip a coin to pick the starting team. Each time gets to pick a category and the dollar amount (a questions) and gets 1 minute to answer it in an open note fashion. I have learned to let both teams to participate for all questions (whether they picked it or not) for management purposes. Then, I have the captains write the answers on pieces of papers I provided them earlier and bring them to me. The reason I play it like that is because if they yell out the answer (and both teams are participating) then one team can potentially accuse the other of "cheating". Also, I tally the dollar amounts at the end and won't announce them till the end (again for management purposes). The winners will earn extra credit for the day and all groups turn in their previously assigned worksheet (including all questions) with the answers to get class participation points (so this way every one receives some sort of credit as incentive to play the game).	Jeopardy game (powerpoint), Voicethread (they can create a review of concepts and vocabulary with their voice either just saying the vocabs or also explaining it), iMovie or movie maker (basically the Voicethread without the voice), Wordle (creates great tool for vocabulary review), Inspiration (create a concept map for the chapter, this might be better for more mature students), Discussion board (I would suggest this to be designed as structured and governed as possible and to be as ongoing so they can get used to the culture of it, Wikispace or other types of wikis (another great tool which I think can host the discussion and other related student-centered work within it, Word or Pages (students of higher maturity level can be given the opportunity to make questions for the test. I tend to also promise to given them points for the assignment as well as pull 1 or 2 questions from the turned-in questions).[[Week 3 - Harris & Hofer Activity Types?responseToken=3ae8c007e495ed11b51cd55f18044768#|Make Header]]
Chrystal Cotner UL Light Barberton	Listen to audio	I prepared a program based on Princeton Review podcasts in iTunes for my honors students. Students listen to the casts, work on a chart based a lot on Marzano's vocabulary acquisitions theory. Examples, non-linguistic examples, sentences, etc.	iTunes, iPod, Notebook or Word Processor, projector
Ken Kozar Science Lakewood High School	Lab Reports	Like Ann, I too would like to break away from the traditional way of creating and turning in lab reports. Obviously, the format would be the same but the way the information is assembled and communicated would be very different.	Edit / Collaborate: Google Docs / Skype / Wiki Data Collection: Excel, Word, Rich Chart Live (see example below) Publish: Moodle / Voicethread / Website / Blog
Keith Ahearn -Harding Middle School	Virtual Field Trips	When I taught high school social studies I collaborated with a teacher from Revere High School to do distance learning through WVIZ. We had our students participate weekly in class discussions and we were able to have virtual field trips where students could ask experts questions about see information from museums and exhibits without wasting instructional time.	Now we could use SKYPE or SPARK or other tools to conduct these field trips rather than the bulky sytem that we used through the Distance Learning Lab
Tara Reis Principal Highland Middle School	Conduct an Interview Historical Weaving	This coming year is the final one for students in the two middle schools in our distict (combining into a new building). We also used to have a third many years ago (now an elementary). I would like to have students in 7th grade collect the stories of former students from the middle schools from various decades. It would be a collection of oral history that would help students see the differences between the buildings (very different in times before redistricting) as well as differences over the course of time. This would done in conjuction with the center for older adults in our YMCA to help create a partnership with community members. This would be a colloborative project for students.	Students would use flip and digital cameras to complete the interviews and then movie making software, Word or Google Docs for the actual writing portion, and other software to create a website or a blog. Students may use Facebook to locate former middle school students.
Ellen Dies, U. L. Light Middle School, Tech teacher	Conduct an interview... historical weaving	I have added my row under Tara's for a reason. This is an idea that she presented to me and we are going to work on it this school year. I would like to use the 8th graders at ULL to conduct the interviews in our building. I'd like to have the students tour the building with people who have either taught at ULL, served as an administrator or attended there. I'd like them to talk about the changes as they walk through the building.	Students could use digital cameras, but perhaps include podcasts for those who cannot visit ULL this year. A script of questions could be added to the district website with a place for them to respond. The culminating event is an open house at ULL and Highland and the movies or whatever final product (my mind is spinning as I think about the possibilities) we use being shown.
Alex Cammock/Harding Middle School	Create a Newspaper/News Magazine	During our American Revolution unit, I have students create a newspaper as if it were written by a Loyalist, Neutralist or Patriot.	I already have students use Word to create them, but I think using a Wiki (Google Docs) to bring a number of different stories together would be interesting. That way the class could all work on their own and bring their different topic to one big newspaper. It could give the class roles, too. I really like this idea the more I think about it. I would also like to know what Scraplog is after reading the article.
Mike Zaletel Tech Coach Bedford High School	Complete Charts/Tables	I have been using dual-entry diaries with my students, where students copy a line of text on the left side of a 2 column table and then write a comment, reaction, question or connection in the right side. My students completed this assignment in notebooks, but this activity could be easily modified to make a collaborative class chart. Students could use GoogleDocs or a wiki to share entries with each other.	GoogleDocs, class wiki, or an office document used with a student response system. Voicethread could also be used if you wanted to incorporate audio into the project. Students could read a line of text and then share their reaction, comment, question or connection.
Alison Cox English Teacher Bedford HS	Research	I teach English IV (all levels of students) and one of the most important skills I try to hone by the time graduation comes is research. Though the students do their research (mostly) online, they could be taking notes online, or in a more interactive way using web 2.0 tools.	They do take notes in Google Docs, but there is little interaction with the notes beyond the actual note taking... We could also start using Diigo or Delicious to annotate and share with others - maybe on the same research topic.
Karen Wheeler LHS Instructional Coach Math	Generate questions	I used to teach high school math and I always wanted my students to interact and answer each other questions more than ever occurred in my class. I would often have my students work in small groups and have them teach each other difficult math concepts. I think I would now use Moodle, google docs, or wikispace to encourage my students to interact with each other more. They could post questions and answer each other.	Google Docs, wikispace, Moodle
Tricia Mencin Bedford High School	Group Discussion	One requirement for students is to be able to interpret computer output from various statistical analyses. The textbook provides many examples which we have used in the past for small group and large group discussions.	Students could use EXCEL and Minitab to enter their own data sets and run the statistical analysis. Groups would then post their computer output to a class wiki where other students could interpret the results with the original group providing feedback.
Patrick Griffis Bedford High School	Problem Based Project	After taking the AP test I like to have a project where the students think of a particular problem in the US government. They pick out the problem and research the problem to find various solutions. They then pick out a solution that is the best one. They then present it to the class. I also use a wiki page where the students make their own notes and discuss current events that connect to those notes they take from the class.	Google docs, drop box, wikispace, and I think I will be using voicethread and edmondo for the class.
Sean Wheeler Lakewood High School Language Arts	Study Guides	I would love for my students to collaborate on study guides for various chapters of novels we are reading or on various texts. We all know about cliff notes, spark notes, wikipedia, etc. and the uses that students put these things to for studying. I think it would be WAY more powerful if the students created their own study guides, collaboratively. I envision groups of students working together asynchronously to get the job done. We could house these study guides on our class moodle page, and I could draw on them for future assessments.	Google Docs, Wikispaces, Moviemaker, Moodle Forums, Prezi, voicethread, etc.
Heather Keister Bedford High School, Science Teacher	Research/Lab Activities/Lab Reports	I really would like to integrate some of my AP chemistry labs with work being done at some of the colleges in the area. Using 2.0 tools would facilitate a relatively simple collaboration for experimental design, the experiment itself, and the collection of the data. To culminate this, maybe a visit to the college - meeting the professor(s) and students that they worked with for the project.	Skype, GoogleDocs, WikiSpaces, MS Office, podcasting

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Bob Rutkowski, Bedford High School
I am looking into using Skype with incoming ninth graders and them talking with other students from other local area schools who are just interested in collaborating with eachother regarding complex transistion issues that occur. Coming from the 8th grade and into a large high school is an extremely difficult time for our students and maybe if I can hook them up together they can discuss ways to make it through successfully. I am not sure if Skype will allow me to locate and secure local area school students but I am going to investigate it and if possible, make it happen...